Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic.
Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Birds -- Argentina
Mr. Barrows met with this species on the Lower Uruguay, in the month of
September, and Burmeister obtained it near Mendoza.
129. CNIPOLEGUS CABANISI, Schulz.
(CABANIS'S TYRANT.)
+Cnipolegus cabanisi+, _Schulz, Journ. f. Orn._ 1882, p. 462.
_Description._--Nearly uniform olivaceous slate-colour; below rather
paler; wings and tail black: whole length 6·0 inches, wing 3·4, tail
3·1. _Female_ brownish olive, below paler; wings blackish, slightly
edged with rufous; tail black, with broad rufous margins to the
inner webs, and narrow similar margins to the outer webs; bill and
feet brown.
_Hab._ Tucuman.
This is one of Herr Schulz's discoveries in Tucuman. He met with it, in
the month of January, in the mountainous districts of that province.
130. CNIPOLEGUS CINEREUS, Scl.
(CINEREOUS TYRANT.)
+Cnipolegus cinereus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 43; _Döring,
Journ. f. Orn._ 1878, p. 197 (Cordova); _Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p.
357, pl. x. (Tucuman, Salta).
_Description._--Dark cinereous, paler and more olivaceous on the
back and wings; edges of wing-coverts and secondaries rather
lighter; below paler, throat and breast blackish, like the head;
inner margins of wing-feathers whitish; outer primaries acuminated;
bill plumbeous, feet black: whole length 4·6 inches, wing 2·2,
tail 2·3. _Female_ brownish cinereous; cap and rump rufous; wings
blackish, tips of coverts and edges of outer secondaries whitish;
tail blackish, inner webs of all the lateral rectrices, except the
tips, rufous; beneath whitish.
_Hab._ Northern Argentina.
131. LICHENOPS PERSPICILLATUS (Gm.).
(SILVER-BILL TYRANT.)
+Lichenops perspicillatus+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 457 (La
Plata to Mendoza); _Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S._ 1868, p. 141 (Buenos
Ayres); _iid. Nomencl._ p. 43; _Hudson, P. Z. S._ 1869, p. 432
(Buenos Ayres); _Gibson, Ibis_, 1880, p. 21 (Buenos Ayres);
_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 604 (Buenos Ayres); _Barrows, Bull.
Nutt. Orn. Cl._ vol. viii. p. 141 (Entrerios, Azul).
_Description._--Uniform black; primaries pure white, with black tips
and bases; fleshy ring around the eye and bill yellow, feet black:
whole length 5·6 inches, wings 3·5, tail 2·4. _Female_ above dark
brown, with light brown edgings to the feathers; remiges chestnut,
with dark-brown tips; wing-coverts dark brown with fulvous
tips; beneath fulvous white, breast with dark striations; under
wing-coverts fulvous; bill yellowish, feet black.
_Hab._ Southern Bolivia, S.E. Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, La Plata,
Chili, and Patagonia.
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